Category: <span>Arts and Entertainment</span>

Wade Manns – The Corsair Brutal Legend Produced by Electronic Arts and Double Fine Productions Genre: third person action, real-time strategy Rating: mature (blood, language, suggestive themes) Jack Black is one of the most entertaining and unique actors on the Hollywood scene today; he started work in the comedic band he founded alongside Kyle Gass...

Alyson Webb Published: January 24, 2006 As long as there have been humans, there has been art.  From ancient cave drawings to primitive written language, we have always been trying to connect to each other. Art is one of the best ways of expressing oneself and if you think you don’t like art or don’t...

Melissa Brown Published: December 6, 2006 The faculty of PJC’s Visual Arts department has an exhibition in the Anna Lamar Switzer Center through December 13.  At the exhibition reception, Managing Editor Melissa Brown sat down with several of the faculty artists to discuss the importance of the show and the meaning behind their work.

by Wade Manns Back in 1900, L. Frank Baum released his timeless children’s masterpiece, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Over 100 years, many sequels, and many adaptations later, the 1939 movie version, simply called The Wizard of Oz, is still the most popular rendition of Baum’s classic. In September, that venerable movie celebrated its 70th...

by Timm Showalter Oct. 2 – 4 over 35 songwriters will be rockin’ out at Pensacola Beach for the first ever Annual Pensacola Songwriters’ Festival. For those who do not know exactly what a songwriter is: a songwriter is someone who writes the music that major artists then perform.  Some of the songwriters attending this...

Kay Forrest – The Corsair The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church at 1720 W Garden St. will hold its 50th annual Greek Festival Oct. 16-18. Admission is free. In addition to authentic Greek food and dancing, church tours will be offered and souvenirs will be sold. Though locals attend the festival for many reasons, one of...

by Wade Manns The Informant! From Warner Bros., Participant Media, and Groundswell Productions Starring Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, and Melanie Lynskey Rated R for language. You might’ve heard in the 1990s about a certain scandal that went on among several agricultural conglomerates, involving the food additive known as lysine. This was a price-fixing...

by Wade Manns Before 1977, videogames were rather boring affairs. Each unit had built-in game software and used dedicated hardware, which meant that each game had to be very simple. The technically-minded among us probably think of the classic arcade game Pong when I talk about these times, and they would be right, but consoles...

Cynthia Munoz Published: November 22, 2006 From the producers of “Wallace and Gromit,” “Flushed Away” is a sewage floating tale of two mice on an adventure: one to make money, the other on a quest to go home. This sweet tale of how bitter acquaintances become friends through trust and teamwork is raking in revenues...

Ashley Porter Published: November 8, 2006 Stranger than Fiction starring Will Farrell, Emma Thomas and Maggie Gyllenhaal, is about a man named, Harold Crick, and the wrist watch that he dismisses as being an ordinary.  Harold Crick is a very, very ordinary man who’s every step is calculated and time precisely by his wrist watch. ...